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Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Definition
: A personality disorder characterized by overly reactive and intensely expressed or overly dramatic behavior, proneness to exaggeration, emotional excitability, and disturbances in interpersonal relationships.
Examples
Hysteria
Other names
Personality, Hysterical; Personality Disorder, Histrionic; Hysterical Personality; Personality Disorders, Histrionic; Personalities, Hysterical; Hysterical Personalities; Histrionic Personality Disorders; Disorders, Histrionic Personality; Disorder, Histrionic Personality